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Of course this is more of an attitude than a literal truth. Point being, you’re the only one responsible for your business. I worked in two projects recently and both clients went out of their way to thank me for my cooperation and good attitude, that got me thinking… How is everyone else working? Why [...]

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In photography books, magazines, and websites, references to reflectors are often and many. They’re a quintessential tool for modifying light in just about every genre, and they’re an indispensable part of many photographers’ toolkits.

If you’re new to the idea of using reflectors, or new to photography in general, the problem with reflectors is that, although they... more

Today, YouTube unveiled a new custom blurring tool to its online video editing platform Creator Studio. This new tool lets you select an object to blur and keep it blurred throughout the entirety of the video. The new tool is located under the Enhancements portion of Creator Studio. Simply choose the custom blurring option, let [...]

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1. They leave the drama to HBO. You will get sucked down faster than a cold beer on a hot day when you engage in the dramatic dealings of certain people. Im not naming names; you know who they are. Everyone knows who they are. Heck, THEY know who they are. Its just not worth [...]

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While watching a drone buzz through the sky might still be an impressive act to watch, I dont think any of us could be as excited to see a drone fly as these schoolchildren from rural Uganda. Shot by Mark Brandon Smith, a gentleman who was working in northwestern Uganda with non-profit IMOutreach.org, the one [...]

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In 2012, the Impossible Project launched the Instant Lab, a contraption that turns your iPhone snapshots into Impossible instant prints. While awesome on its own, analog aficionados SUPERSENSE decided to further improve the usefulness of the Impossible Instant Lab by creating the Lab2Cam Conversion Kit, a manual Polaroid SX70 lens lens attached to a mounting [...]

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Photoshop is an extremely powerful tool for editing images. In fact, its so rich in features that many of the most used features are oftentimes behind a handful of clicks and adjustments. One solution to streamlining your workflow is to create keyboard shortcuts in Photoshop so that you can easily apply your most used actions [...]

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Shapes are everywhere, have a look around you. Do you see any squares like these images I shared previously?

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One of the problems whentrying to create the images we see in our head is that, in the real world, the constituent parts can be very difficult to get together in front of your camera all at the same time. This is where compositing steps in. Sometimes, you just have no choice, and you may [...]

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We’ve featured a few DIY Beauty Dishes in the past, from the very cheap to the super cheap, but few of those builds would blend into aprofessional studio quite as well as this one. In this video, French photographer, Antony Gomes, and the team atShootr show us how they built theirs. Starting with an Ikea [...]

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